Top Halloween customs that you don’t want to miss.

Halloween is celebrated annually on 31th October. This festival is also known as All Halloween, All Hallows’ Eve and All Saints’ Eve. It is widely believed that many Halloween traditions originated from ancient Celtic harvest festivals, particularly the Gaelic festival Samhain; that such festivals may have had pagan roots and that Samhain itself was Christianized as Halloween by the early Church.

In many parts of the world, the Christian religious observances of All Hallows’ Eve, including attending church services and lighting candles on the graves of the dead, remain popular although elsewhere it is a more commercial and secular celebration.

Some Christians historically abstained from meat on All Hallows’ Eve, a tradition reflected in the eating of certain vegetarian foods on this vigil day, including apples, potato pancakes, and soul cakes.